Awesome! Let us know who stands out if you can.
Honestly, these drills are f***ing TOUGH, and they’re intricate. It’s hard for me to tell who looks good because they’re a good skater vs who looks good because they’re cheating on the drill. A lot of the top guys have struggled at one time or another.
They just did a drill that involved skating the length of the ice on a single foot, alternating every few strides between forwards and backwards. At the end Wendy picked out some of the best for a little competition. Came down to Muggli and Johnson, and Johnson won.
In general these drills seemed to favor the D. Lemay was one guy who seemed particularly strong to me.
Also, for all the shit Cristall gets about his skating, I haven’t noticed him having any particular trouble. They’re doing a ladder agility drill, and he was next to Hutson and kept pace (so did big Satan, impressive)
Chesley has very fast feet on the ladder drill. He and Leonard were facing off and seemed to be having fun together. Props to Muggli and Lemay on the ladder drill too.
They ended by sprinting to a metronome. First one beep per second (so one stride per second), then two, then four, then eight. Weird note here: at the higher speeds Cristall was noticeably lagging behind the guys sprinting with him. Then for the last one Wendy turned off the metronome and told them to go all out. This time, Cristall finished near the head of his group. No idea what to make of that.